Problems

Problems: either you deal with them, or they deal with you. That was my main though this lunch break - because I have many problems to deal with.

Sometimes a problem will solve itself. Last year that happened with social security. If you hate spiders and there's one in your room, it might go away on its own if you're too afraid to squish it- but then again it might bite you in the night! Sometimes if you don't deal with it, it'll lash out on you so hard that it's even worse than it would have been had you dealt with it yourself.
It's a bit like the "howlers" in Harry Potter: red angry letters that, if you open them, a loud voice houls at you, yells at you... but if you don't open it yourself, it will eventually explode and the yelling will be so loud that absolutely everyone will hear what it says.

We have lots of "problems"- some we can ignore for awhile, some we just have to live with, and others need to be dealt with immediately. Some are so awful that we know that dealing with them might just cost us everything... so we assume that leaving well enough alone, ignoring it, will make it go away.

Imagine you have no insurance on your car. This isn't a problem if you're never stopped by the police and you never crash into anything. But the day one of those events occur... you're in deep trouble.
Imagine you've told a "small" lie. If the person leaves it at that, isn't inquisitive, and the issue never comes up again, you might not see any consequences. For instance you may say "I had a very important phone call from my bank, which is why I'm late", instead of admitting you were sleeping and didn't want to get up so early - that sort of lie probably won't catch up with you. But imagine you tell something about yourself to a friend, to make yourself look better. You might have to keep on lying to covor up your lie, the lies will get bigger and bigger and eventually it might blow up and destroy your friendship.

The main problem we all have is sin (don't let yourself be put off by the word- please read on and comment if you disagree). Most people ignore it, try to hide it, or decide to declare "it's not a problem!"- but it is. Some people try to do all three, which isn't logical. They say "it's not a problem"- but they doubt this enough to try to hide it, even from themselves, and therefore try to ignore it. If it wasn't a problem they would live it in the open. The other approach is to try to deal with it. Some people try to deal with it by trying to stop. This doesn't work. Try it- just for one thing- and if you're like me you won't last a week.
Others figure that since they can't stop, they may as well try to outweigh the sin by good works. Doing random acts of kindness is a good thing, but it doesn't erase the problem of sin. It just makes you a nice person.
The only way is to be forgiven and redeemed, purified, by Jesus Christ.

You can decide to deal with your problems now, or wait until they deal with you to start working on your problems, or, worse, wait until it's too late to do anything about them. You can get away with a lot for a long time, but not with everything forever.